Active Reasoning Extends Platform Support to z/OS and z/Linux.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Active Reasoning, the leader in IT policy enforcement and controls validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. , announced today that it has extended platform support to include z/OS and z/Linux. Already running on Windows 2000/2003, NT, Solaris, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and OS/400, Active Reasoning provides comprehensive operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. support to meet the needs of heterogeneous IT environments. The decision to support the mainframe environment was driven by strong customer demand for Active Reasoning's software to run on z/Linux and for event-based DB2 collection on both z/OS and z/Linux. Chuck Price, Active Reasoning's Vice President of Engineering, commented, "Most of our customers have complex cross-platform requirements and the mainframe is an important part of their IT operations. We are delighted to support the needs of our customers by offering z/OS and z/Linux compatibility." DB2 capabilities for both z/Linux and z/OS will include monitoring changes to the schema of a database and the value of content within the database as well as building a comprehensive inventory of database tables and content for IT control reporting and archiving. In addition z/Linux database monitoring will capture and analyze SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. Trace information for detection of activities such as privilege changes and restricted access. Active Reasoning will offer both its software for z/Linux and DB2 database monitoring on z/Linux and z/OS as part of its 3.2.4 release in July, 2006. About Active Reasoning Active Reasoning's IT Policy Enforcement solutions automatically detect, validate, and report unauthorized change and out of compliance actions on the IT infrastructure. Using Active Reasoning, enterprise IT organizations and service providers operationalize ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). and other best practices to increase the reliability of IT services, mitigate mit·i·gate v. To moderate in force or intensity. mit  i·ga tion n. operational risk, and reduce the cost and effort of policy
compliance by 30% or more. This is made possible by the combination of
Active Reasoning's Policy Management Database(TM), event-based
collection of the who, what, when, and where of user actions, and a
correlation engine providing real-time policy review and validation.
Active Reasoning is backed by top-tier venture partners including
ComVentures, ArrowPath Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures, and InterWest
Partners. For more information, visit the company's website at
www.activereasoning.com.
Active Reasoning is a trademark of Active Reasoning, Inc. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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